What Does the Working Class Really Want?, The Atlantic, Dec. 11, 2023, by George Packer
From the late 1970s until very recently, the brains and dollars
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British National Health Service Crippled by Privatization & Austerity Funding
How Britain Put One of the World’s Best Health Care Systems on Life Support, Video Op-Ed (7 minutes), New York Times, Dec. 7, 2023, by
Implosion of Commercial Health Insurance
Family health Insurance Is No Longer Affordable Through Small Employers, KFF, Nov. 28, 2023, by Drew Altman
One thing that really jumped out from our 25th
PPO becomes PP-No: Providers Refuse Medicare Advantage
Hospital Vitals: Financial and Operational Trends: U.S. hospitals face diminished reserves, mounting reimbursement challenges, Syntellis and American Hospital Association, November 2023
Seniors Scramble as Scripps, Other
Saving Lives in the Middle East via Political Solution & the US via Health Reform
Justice for the Palestinians and Security for Israel, New York Times, Nov. 22, 2023, by Sen. Bernie Sanders
On Oct. 7, Hamas, a terrorist organization, unleashed
Erosion of Job-Based Insurance to Defined Contribution
Larger Employers Fund Worker Obamacare Option as Costs Spike, Bloomberg Law, Nov. 15, 2023, by Sara Hansard
Larger employers … are increasingly funding their workers’ purchases
Excessive Corporate Control in Medicine
Summary: A valuable report lays out the harm due to a corporate takeover of medicine –deleteriously affecting the experience of both providers and patients. The American
California Seeks Federal Waivers for Unified Health Care Financing
Summary: In October, California enacted SB 770, establishing a formal process to explore federal waivers necessary for state-level “unified financing.” Insurers vehemently opposed it, and
KFF Highlights the Harms of Insurance Complexity
Summary: Leaders of the Kaiser Family Foundation – a leading tracker of US health care – published a blog in JAMA identifying system complexity as the
History of U.S. Medical Debt Collection
Summary: U.S. medical debt structure has substantially evolved from amounts negotiated among care participants in the 1980s, to commoditized assets and aggressive collection today. With
Survey Confirms (Again) that US Health Insurance Makes Us Sicker & Poorer
Summary: A Commonwealth Fund survey thoroughly documents that US health insurance of all types poses widespread financial barriers to care, and thus leaves us sicker. Not
How To Get Health Insurance in Other Countries: Be Born
Summary: Dr. Danielle Ofri, an insightful commentator on the practice of medicine, overlooked annual re-enrollment for her health insurance at work due to an email glitch.